Technology | November 16, 2012
November 16, 2012 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted market clearance for the Avinger Inc....
News | October 24, 2012
October 24, 2012 — Avinger Inc., a medical device manufacturer of multi-functional catheters for crossing CTOs in...
News | September 20, 2012
September 20, 2012 — Boston Scientific Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BridgePoint Medical Inc., a...
Technology | September 18, 2012
September 18, 2012—Covidien announced the launch of the Viance Crossing Catheter and Enteer Re-entry System for...
News | July 24, 2012
July 24, 2012 — Use of the retrograde approach to revascularizing coronary chronic total occlusions (CTOs) to deliver...
News | July 05, 2012
July 5, 2012 — Avinger Inc., a medical device manufacturer of multifunctional catheters for treating patients with...
News | June 08, 2012
June 8, 2012 — Austin Heart, the largest provider of cardiac and vascular services in central Texas, announced its...
News | May 04, 2012
May 4, 2012 - A new balloon catheter system could advance the endovascular approach to treating obstructed arteries in...
Feature | March 19, 2012 | Mark Michael, M.D., and Jeffrey A. Breall, M.D., Ph.D.
Management of coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) is individualized depending on the severity of symptoms, ischemia...
News | February 27, 2012
Avinger Inc. announced the enrollment of the first European patient in the CONNECT II global clinical trial. The first...
Technology | February 09, 2012
February 9, 2012 — Boston Scientific announced the United States launch of the TruePath CTO device, designed to...
News | January 25, 2012
January 25, 2012 — Which Medical Device announced the winner of its Device of the Year Award 2011 in the cardiology...
News | January 20, 2012
January 20, 2012 - BridgePoint Medical Inc. this week signed an agreement with Covidien to exclusively license the...

Avinger gained CE mark for a forward-looking optical coherence tomography (OCT) system to aid recanalization of chronic total occlusions (CTOs).
Feature | November 17, 2011 | Dave Fornell
Each year that I attend Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), I comb the event and its sessions looking for...
Technology | October 17, 2011
October 17, 2011 — The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) has become the first cardiac care...